orm of;
adoption of by referendum.
Constructive total loss, origin of doctrine.
Contempt of court, effort to obtain jury trial, (_see Chancery,
Injunction_).
Contract (_see Freedom of_), status of, desirable for labor.
Convict-made goods, denial of to interstate commerce.
Co-operation (_see Profit Sharing_).
Corn, exportation of, forbidden in 1360.
"Corners" (_see Engrossing, Forestalling_),
unlawful to create at the common law;
corners of wheat in Athens;
by Joseph in Egypt.
Coronation oaths, history of.
Corporation,
general discussion of, Chapter X;
Federal incorporation;
first appearance of secular trading corporations uncertain;
companies corporate required to record their charters as early as
1426;
by-laws of must be reasonable;
first trading companies under Elizabeth;
early charters of difficult to find;
business, origin of;
discussion of;
peculiar powers of incorporated persons;
unknown in Rome and early England;
special municipal corporations and monasteries;
limited liability of, invented in Connecticut;
form of the modern;
Federal supervision;
powers of in other States;
prohibition of;
holding stock by;
earliest business companies;
history of;
limited liability;
monopoly given to Federal corporations;
powers of in other States;
the Massachusetts law;
two theories of legislation concerning;
clash of State and Federal law;
the "Trust problem";
discussion of subject by Massachusetts commissioners;
now created under general laws;
modern legislation concerning;
liability of stockholders;
payment in of stock;
income;
"publicity";
monopoly, consolidation, etc.;
the holding company;
public service;
duration of franchise;
powers of in other States;
have no immunity from giving testimony;
are subject to the criminal law;
primarily through individual officers.
Corrupt practices (_see Bribery_) election laws.
Corruption (_see Bribery_), modern statute against.
Council, the great, was originally executive and judicial as well as
legislative (_see Three Functions of Government_);
primarily judicial;
legislation incidental to judicial judgments;
law declared, not made, by Great Council;
development with legislative power into Parliament;
the great judicial functions of;
in Magna Charta;
so-called until 1275.
Counsel, right to, etc.
Cousins, marriage of forbidden;
County courts, e